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TIL pro women fighters were loved, hated, admired, reviled, and even criminalized during Victorian times

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ZmmB TIL that the ampersand (&) was once the last letter of the alphabet. In latin the & was called “per se”. When reciting the alphabet people would say, “X, Y, Z and per se”. That last bit (“and per se”) eventually ran together to create the word, “ampersand”
mxprp TIL that botox is the deadliest substance on earth, a few kilos of it enough to kill every human on the planet. In cosmetics, it is given in quantities a billionth of a gram large. It is also the most expensive substance on earth, costing £100trillion per kilo.
d8xWE TIL That Mauritius is 48.5% Hindu, making it the only country in Africa where Hinduism is the most-followed religion
m1EBp TIL about The Musalman, the world's only newspaper which is entirely written by hand instead of being typed. This Chennai-based Urdu-language newspaper has been circulated since 1927 and is 4 pages long.
PyxO TIL: Mario Party 8 was withdrawn from shelves in the UK because some copies included the word “spastic”, which is considered a highly offensive word referring to disability, the game was eventually re-released with the word replaced with “erratic.”